The pretty bland heroine has the Mother from Hell and an okay dad. Bad mothers are my kryptonite among other tropes, and this one gave me plenty to chew on. However, in this case Jackson's bad mother trumps even the most annoying and manipulative one that Novak has created. They are NOT the same, but they both do bad mothers very well. I saw "Brenda" and that there was a bad mommy in one of the reviews and got Brenda Jackson and Brenda Novak mixed up. Brenda’s 2011 novel A Silken Thread is scheduled to be filmed with Debbie Allen attached as director in 2015.Įmail Brenda at or visit her on her website at. In 2010, she collaborated with Five Alive Films to turn her Truly Everlasting title into a feature film. In 2013, she was recognized by the mayor and the city of Jacksonville as being a Trailblazer in the literary field. In 2012, Brenda received the Romance Writers of America’s Nora Roberts Lifetime Achievement Award-one of the highest literary awards a romance author can receive. Since then she has had more than 100 novels and novellas published (the first African-American author to accomplish such a feat) and has over 3 million books in print.Ī native of Jacksonville, Florida, Brenda is the first African-American author to have a book published by Harlequin Desire and the first African-American romance author to make the New York Times and USA TODAY bestseller lists within the series romance genre. In 1994, Brenda Jackson’s first novel, Tonight and Forever, was released.
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